My Girl is a 1991 drama film directed by Howard Zieff and written by Laurice Elehwany. The film depicts the coming-of-age of a young girl who faces many different emotional highs and lows and stars Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis in their first film together since 1983's Trading Places. The film also stars Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut. A sequel, My Girl 2, was released in 1994. The film is set in Madison, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1972. Vada Sultenfuss is an 11-year-old tomboy and a hypochondriac. Vada's father, Harry Sultenfuss , is an awkward widower... who does not seem to understand his daughter, constantly ignoring her as a result. His profession as a funeral director, for which the Sultenfuss' residence serves as a funeral parlor, has led Vada to develop an obsession with death. She thinks that she killed her mother, since her mother died giving birth to her. Vada regularly tends to her invalid grandmother Gramoo , who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Harry's brother Phil , who lives nearby, also stops by frequently to help out the family.
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| Release date: | November 27, 1991 |
| Directed by: | Howard Zieff |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Producer: | Brian Grazer |
| Editor: | Wendy Greene Bricmont |
| Music by: | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography: | Paul Elliott |
| Screenplay by: | Laurice Elehwany |
| Estimated budget: | $15,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |